Government Test-and-Buy Smart City
Funds Korean startups demonstrating smart-city technology with public bodies and opening a route to pilot purchases.
Korean startups can receive KRW 100 million to demonstrate smart-city technology with a government or public institution. The Ministry of SMEs and Startups runs this smart-city phase of its Government Test-and-Buy Program to solve the first-customer problem for products in new industries. Public bodies submit operational needs, MSS selects viable collaboration projects, and startups apply to work …
Covers public-setting demonstrations of robotics, sensing, safety, infrastructure, mobility, and other smart-city technologies.
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